For a long time, the Jurchen pirates had been engaged in the cause of robbing families at sea. Even when Wanyan Aguda led the Jurchens to establish the Jin Dynasty, many people still chose to join the sea to become pirates. However, with the rise of the Mongols and the demise of the Jin Kingdom, the Jurchens became vassals of the Mongols, and these traditional pirates were all severely hit and could not recover for a while.

In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, there was indeed a period of strong naval power. Due to the battle with the Southern Song Dynasty and the acquisition of the Southern Song Dynasty's naval army in the process of destroying the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty inherited the naval advantages of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Mongolian attack on the Goryeo Wujia regime and the subsequent two Japanese campaigns brought great harm to the powerful forces in the coastal areas of Goryeo, so these local snakes were unable to continue to invest in piracy activities.

However, the pirates did not disappear because of this, but only reached a low tide. The war between the Mongols caused another pirate to rise up. The Yuan Dynasty's war against Japan broke the finances of the Kamakura Shogunate, which had already declined, and fell into the Northern and Southern Dynasties. A large number of samurai became evil parties and ronin. They went to sea to gather into a large number of Japanese pirates and raid the coast of the Yuan Dynasty. Large-scale Japanese pirate activities began to officially appear in Asian history.

These Japanese pirates were familiar with the coastal areas of Goryeo and incorporated pirate forces abandoned by the coastal tyrants of Goryeo. At this point, the famous Japanese pirates began to reveal their fangs and claws. Logically speaking, since the Yuan Dynasty inherited the advantages of the Song Dynasty's naval army, they should be able to effectively punish these Japanese pirates, right? No! Because the Yuan Dynasty was in a state of insufficient financial income for a long time, the navy was defeated repeatedly in the battle with the Song naval army led by Zhao Bing. In addition, the war in Cham City suffered heavy losses, so the Mongols could no longer build a powerful maritime force and could only allow the Japanese pirates to come and go freely.

The attacks of Japanese pirates were seen in Fujian and Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning and other places, covering the entire coast of the Yuan Dynasty. Invasions of Japanese pirates occurred in Goryeo for many years. There were more than 50 Japanese ships invaded, and most of them were more than 200. Every time they arrived in Goryeo, the houses were burned. The canal ships also became the main target of Japanese pirates' plunder, forcing the Goryeo Dynasty to finally change the canal transport to land transport.

Faced with rampant Japanese pirates, Meng Yuan would probably find it useful, not to mention that he was unable to clear the attack at the moment, and would even secretly support him. The harassment of pirates forced the Song Dynasty navy, which occupied Jiangnan, to send warships to protect the maritime trade line and escort merchant ships during the trade wind season, thus restraining the Song army's forces and unable to take military action on their inland hinterland through maritime operations. Moreover, they have always attached importance to sea trade in the past, but now the routes are controlled by the Song army, which makes them unable to participate. Naturally, they are more willing to see the pirates intensify their invasion of the Song Dynasty and destroy the economy along the coast of Jiangnan...

Zhao Bing knew that the ancient profession of bandits had tenacious vitality. From ancient times to the present, he had accompanied human history like a maggot. In any case, the era he had traveled through time still exists, and it may continue to exist until human beings die. The harm is unquestionable. Small can cause panic among the people, cause social unrest, and lose property. If it is bigger, it can subvert a sovereign state, cause damage to the regional economy, and even endanger international security and economic development.

Then the harm of bandits has long been known to the world, so why is their vitality so tenacious? The answer is also very simple. The main reason is that natural disasters and man-made disasters are intertwined, and people cannot afford to eat, so they gather together to do business with no money for stealing. Zhao Bing knew that he had no ability to liberate all mankind, achieve world harmony, meet everyone's needs, and establish a society where "no way to pick up the remains and no doors are closed at night". The result is that he cannot completely eliminate bandits and fulfill this grand wish of unprecedented people.

Since this is the case, Zhao Bing could only settle for the second best and tried his best to ensure that his own land was less invaded by bandits. To do this, he still felt that it was a long task and quite a headache. But this matter must be done. Frequent invasion of bandits will inevitably cause panic among the people. Attacking states and plundering governments and killing officials is also a challenge to the bottom line of a sovereign country. Their plundering merchant ships on the maritime trade line is even more threatening the economic lifeline of the Song Dynasty, and he cannot tolerate it no matter what.

Zhao Bing still had some experience in suppressing bandits, and he had also wanted to enter the industry. When he first entered Qiongzhou, he faced serious bandit problems. He used the method of recruiting and pacifying to wipe out the pirates entrenched around Qiongzhou, conquered the lie people who united the soldiers and bandits, and thus eliminated the pirates who were rampant in the waters near Qiongzhou.

After that, with the growth of the Song army, the navy became even more powerful. Even the Mongolian and Yuan navy hid, and the pirates fled far away from Qiongzhou. Zhao Bing was still learning and used the pirates and bandits and the salt owls who were like bandits to harass the Minguang area occupied by the Mongolian Yuan, and gradually took them for their own use, eventually developing into a force that could compete with the Yuan army. It played a great role in the war to regain Jiangnan and was incorporated into the regular army of the Song army.

After entering Jiangnan, Zhao Bing had to make money by trade, and spared no effort to attack pirates, driving away the pirates on the southeast coast and escorting the navy to open up new waterways. It can be said that the pirates were far away from seeing each other. However, this attack on Haizhou made him discover that the bandits were unwilling to give up this piece of fat and took advantage of the opportunity of the two countries to get a piece of the pie. What made Zhao Bing even more worried was that the bandits had already had a tendency to merge and tried to cooperate with each other.

You should know that a group of bandits like a dispersed sand is far more difficult to deal with than a group of desperate gangs. Small groups of bandits can only dare to do small cases such as robbery, kidnapping, extortion, etc. Once several bandits unite, their courage will be strong, and they can occupy the mountains and become kings, attack weak defenses, rob granaries, and plunder the population. If they cannot be wiped out in time, their strength will grow as a result, and then form a separatist force.

However, Zhao Bing also understood that the bandits on the land were relatively easy to deal with, because a country would not allow the bandits in the territory to grow. Even if they could take advantage of the war to grow, they would be wiped out after the war, regardless of victory or defeat. In addition, what restricts the development of bandits on the land was the economic foundation. In order to avoid attacks, they often could only drill into mountains and lakes. Most of the places were remote and remote, without much money.

In addition, the economic foundation of bandits is that they are wandering everywhere. Violent speculators are the product of the grouping of retail investors in the dark. Otherwise, how can they be called bandits and bandits? Besides, they are just making a living at the edge of the knife, and their concepts are more realistic. Whoever has no money follows you. So all the rules and contract spirits are nonsense. They believe that if you have milk, it is a mother, and whoever has money follows you.

But their maritime peers are different. Pirates' main business is not to plunder merchant ships. Their profit model is to continuously carry out maritime protection fees and make huge profits through self-operated trade. Once they grow to a certain scale, there will be consortiums and wealthy families investing, and instead charge huge franchise fees from maritime merchants to make money. Therefore, pirates with strong financial resources can build more warships and recruit more people to join.

At the same time, it is very difficult to eliminate pirates. Some small countries cannot afford to support naval forces, let alone suppress them. Even countries that have the ability to eliminate pirates will not "mediate in other people's business" as long as they do not infringe on their own interests, and are more willing to use pirates to suppress competitors in trade. Moreover, there is no need to fight at sea, and there are vast seas and many islands. It is very difficult to find their traces, and even if they discover them, they may not be able to catch up.

In addition, pirates are fighting guerrilla warfare. The coastline is long and it is impossible to set up defenses in every place. However, they can choose to log in and rob at any location, making it difficult for you to defend against them. Therefore, many countries are suffering from the high cost of dealing with pirates. In addition to severe punishment and deterrence, they often adopt a policy of reprimand and pleading, and then use them to deal with pirates.

Zhao Bing did not care about these bandits on the land. With the establishment of local regimes and the formation of local armed forces, the bandits will be quickly suppressed with the assistance of the imperial guards. After the border defense system is improved, it will become increasingly difficult for bandits from the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties to carry out cross-border attacks. At the same time, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties will not cause military conflicts between the two countries because bandits frequently attack the Song territory, and will severely crack down on bandits in the territory.

However, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to deal with pirates. Not only does the navy need to attack pirates, but the defense of coastal prefectures and counties must also be strengthened, the construction of cities and additional garrisons must be sent. At the same time, the fortresses are built at the estuary on the coastline to prevent pirates from invading the mainland, and a lookout post is also arranged to strengthen the surveillance of the sea surface so as to promptly warn.

However, passive defense is not Zhao Bing's style, and solving the problem of pirates once and for all is not realistic. So he can only try to use it for himself. Using pirates to trade in sea and attack competitors is not his creation. There have been precedents in the world. He suspected that pirates are suddenly becoming rampant now, and there must be someone behind the scenes to manipulate them, and the most suspicious ones are Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan.

These two people made a lot of money by monopolizing the transportation of grain and trade. They also had ready-made warships and soldiers. They were also familiar with the operation of pirates, so it was very easy to re-enter the industry. It was easy to conquer the Korean pirates who were not close to each other, their uncles did not love them, and they lost their backers. But his current opponent is Zhao Bing. No matter how rich they are, they are just a scumbag in front of him, and they have become vulnerable.
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